in all fairness to secretary clinton -- yes? is that okay? good. i want you to be very happy. it's very important to me. >> donald, i know you live in your own reality, but that is not the fact. >> i think my strongest asset maybe by far is my term permanent. i have a winning temperament. i know how to win. she does not -- >> i think donald just criticized me for preparing for this bate. and yes, i did. and you know what else i prepared for? i prepared to be president. and i think that's a good thing.

>> after more than a year of cam paning donald trump and hillary clinton share the national stage for the first time fare a fiery debate. >> everything from tax returns, climate change, hillary clinton's e-mail server, and much more, it was truly a blockbuster night. plus just one day after learning about the death of teammate jose fernandez, the marlins turn their respects by turning the pitching mound into a memorial. a powerful and emotional night in miami. good morning. it's tuesday, september 27th. i'm alex whig alongside louis burgdorf. donald trump and hillary clinton met on stage for the percent time last night where the candidates' views on trade, policing, and foreign affairs came head to head. it began with greetings between

the potential first spouses, bill clinton and melania trump. the capped dates met for a handshake before an audience of millions, a rare expression of civility in what has been a bruising campaign. for more than 90 minutes the debate offered a split screen of disagreements on everything from tax plans to temperament. >> i'm going to cut taxes big league and you're going to raise taxes big league. end of story. >> let me get you to pause. we're going to move into the next segment -- >> that can't be left to stand. >> 30 seconds. >> i kind of assumed there would be a lot of these charges and claims. and so -- >> facts. >> we have taken the home page of my website, hillaryclinton.com, we've turned it into a fact checker. so if you want to see in realtime what the facts are, please go and take a look. because -- >> and take a look at mine also. >> i hope the fact checkers are turning up the volume and really working hard.

donald supported the invasion of iraq -- >> wrong. >> that is absolutely proved -- >> wrong. >> -- over and over again -- >> wrong. i have much better judgment than she does, there's no question about that. i also have a much better temperament than she has ran you know, i have a much better -- i have a winning temperament. i know how to win. she does not -- >> secretary clinton -- >> wait. afl-cio the other day, behind the blue screen, i don't know who you were talking to, secretary clinton. but you were totally out of control. i said, there's a person with a temperament that's got a problem. >> secretary clinton? >> whoo, okay. >> early in the night, trump dominated with overtalk. but there seemed to an shift when it came to the subject of why he hasn't released his own income tax filings, which according to fog data was the single most talked about topic of the night. >> so you've got to ask

yourself, why won't he release his tax returns? and i think there may be a couple of reasons. first, maybe he's not as rich as he says he is. second, maybe he's not as charitable as he claims to be. third, we don't know all of his business dealings, but we have been told through investigative reporting that he owes about $650 million to wall street and foreign banks. or maybe he doesn't want the american people, all of you watching tonight, to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes because the only years that anybody's ever seen were a couple years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax. so -- >> that makes me smart. >> there's something he's hiding and we'll guess, keep guessing at what it might than he's hiding. i think the question is were he ever to get near the white

house, what would be those conflicts? who does he owe money to? >> you don't learn that much from tax returns, that i can tell you. you learn a lot from financial disclosure. you should go down and take a look at that. the other thing, i'm extremely underleveraged. the report that said 650, which by the way a lot of friends that know my business said, boy, that's not a lot of money. it's not a lot of money relative to what i have. the buildings in question they said in the same report, which actually wasn't even a bad story to be hobbs with you. the buildings are worth $3.9 billion. we're a debtor nation. we're a serious debtor nation. we have a country that needs new roads, tunnels, bridges, airports, schools, hospitals. and we don't have the money because it's been squandered on so many of your ideas. >> respond and we'll move -- >> you haven't paid any federal income tax for a lot of years and the other thing i think is

important -- >> it would be squandered too, believe me. >> many seize on the fact that trump seemed to not dispute that he does not pay federal income taxes. here's nbc's katy tur seeking clarification afterwards in the spin room. >> my current returns will be released as soon as they -- >> do you pay federal income tax now? >> my federal returns will be released -- >> do you pay federal income tax now? >> during that discussion donald trump brought up hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server. when clinton was asked if she wanted to respond she admitted to making a mistake. >> i will release my tax returns, against my lawyers' wishes, when she releases her 33,000 e-mails that have been deleted. as soon as she releases them, i will release, i will release my tax returns. >> he also raised the issue of your e-mails. do you want to respond to that? >> i do. you know, i made a mistake using a private e-mail --

>> that's for sure. >> if i had to do it over again, i would obviously do it differently. but i'm not going to make any excuses. it was a mistake and i take responsibility for that. >> that was more than a mistake. that was done purposely. okay? that was not a mistake, that was done purposely. when you have your staff taking the fifth amendment, taking the fifth so they're not prosecuted, when you have the man that set up the illegal server taking the fifth, i think it's disgraceful. and believe me, this country thinks it's disgrace -- really thinks it's disgraceful also. >> following the debate, trump tweeted, nothing on e-mails, nothing on the corrupt clinton foundation, nothing on benghazi. >> at times the debate grew intensely personal and trump was asked to defend his comments about hillary clinton's appearance and her health. >> you look at the inner cities, i just left detroit, i just left philadelphia, you know, you've seen me, i've been all over the place.

you decided to stay home and that's okay. but i will tell you i've been all over -- >> i think donald just criticized me for preparing for this debate. and yes, i did. and you know what else i prepared for? i prepared to be president. and i think that's a good then. >> mr. trump, for five years you perpetuated a false -- >> earlier this month you said she doesn't have, "a presidential look." she's standing here right now. what did you mean by that? >> she doesn't have the look. she doesn't have the stamina. i said she doesn't have the stamina. and i don't believe she does have the stamina. to be president of this country, you need tremendous stamina. you have to be able to negotiate our trade deals. you have to be able to negotiate -- that's right -- with japan, with saudi arabia. you have so many different things you have to be able to do. and i don't believe that hillary has the stamina.

>> well, as soon as he travels to 112 countries and negotiates a peace deal, a cease-fire, a release of dissidents, an opening of new opportunities in nations around the world, or even spends 11 hours testifying in front of a congressional committee, he can talk to me about stamina. >> on the issue of crime and safety, trump was once again asked about his call to expand the controversial police tactic of stop and frisk nationally. >> stop and frisks was ruled unconstitutional in new york because it largely singled out black and hispanic -- >> no, you're wrong. it went before a judge who was a very against police judge. it was taken away from her. and our mayor, our new mayor, refused to go forward with the case. they would have won on appeal. if you look at it throughout the country there are many places -- >> the argument is it's a form

of racial profiling. >> no, the argument is we have to take the guns away from these people that have them and are bad people that shouldn't have them. >> stop and terrific was found to be unconstitutional. and in part because it was ineffective. it did not do what it needed to do. >> stop and frisk was in fact ruled unconstitutional in 2013 because, according to a federal judge, it unfairly targeted black and hispanic people. an nypd spokesman tweeted, "stop, question, and frisk has decreased nearly 97% in nyc since 2011. crime, murder and shootings have decreased significantly during same period." critics decried have fewer stops in nyc would have fewer crime, the very opposite occurred. nyc is on pace to have one of the safest record on crime, murders and shootings are down significantly. >> donald trump and hillary clinton squared off on cyber security last night. the two discussed the recent string of high-profile hacks

including this summer's nebraska national committee breach. clinton warned of threats from russia. trump offered another eyebrow-raising suspect in the attacks. >> i don't think anybody knows it was russia that broke into the dnc. she's saying russia, russia, russia. maybe it was. i mean, it could be russia. it could also be china. it could also be lots of other people. it could also be somebody sitting on that bed that weighed 400 pounds, okay? you don't know who broke into dnc. but what did we learn with dnc? we learned that bernie sanders was taken advantage of by your people. by debbie wasserman schultz. look what happened to her. but bernie sanders was taken advantage of. that's what it was. now whether that was russia, whether that was china, whether it was another country, we don't know. because the truth is, under president obama, we've lost control of things that we used to have control over. >> many weighed in on the republican nominee's sporchgs including trump supporter and

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welcome back. investigators are piecing together what triggered a houston attorney to open fire in a random mass shooting, injuring nine people. the 21 man was ultimately killed by police after a 20-minute rampage rocked a texas community. nbc's blake mccoy has more. >> reporter: the morning commute turned terrifying in this quiet houston neighborhood. a gunman opening fire for 20 minutes. randomly shooting at drivers near a strip mall. >> i was driving to the gym as

usual. then suddenly just felt like -- like an explosion inside of my car. and glass everywhere. and i heard a few pops. maybe two or three. could smell the powder and hot air from the bullets just flying by. >> reporter: six people shot, a total of nine injured. the gunman killed in a shoot-out with police. >> multiple officersaged the suspect. who was shooting randomly at passer-byes. >> reporter: police say he carried out the attack wearing a military-style uniform and nazi emblems were found on some of his belongings. the neighborhood was put on lock bedown. residents told to shelter in place. jennifer melada's husband's car was hit. she says two bullets went right by his face. >> screaming and crying, i'm hit, i'm hit. >> reporter: police say the shooter's car, a black porsche, was found nearby. he had two guns and 2,600 rounds of live ammunition.

officials have not named the gunman but say he was a lawyer who lived in the neighborhood and recently had issues with his law firm. police say they're investigating the suspect's problems at work and law enforcement sources tell nbc news they do not believe the shooter has any connections to terrorism. >> that was blake mccoy reporting there. turning to the alleged washington mall gunman, made his first court appearance yesterday. arcan cetin appeared relatively calm. he faces five counts of premedicated first-degree murder and being held on $2 million bail. if convicted he could face life in prison without parole. according to court documents cetin admitted to being the gunman. his father told detectives his rifle and ammunition was missing which police say is the same weapon used in the shooting. a motive still unknown. his visibly distraught stepfather spoke after the hearing. >> the only thing we would like to say at this time that is we're both totally devastated by what's happened.

we are torn up. we're hurt. arcan has had mental health issues that we have been trying to work on with him. that's all i can say. >> the mall where the shooting took place reopened yesterday, although the macy's remains closed. let's get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, a rainy morning in new york. >> yeah, the northeast, nothing like questioned. yesterday at this time we had flash flooding in charlotte, also san antonio. let me show you these pictures. they use these ladder trucks sometimes for rescues. not just high but also low. first off this is the cedar river. this is what we're watching around areas of iowa. it's been sunny but the river's still going up because all the small streams and creeks have been flowing into it. we'll watch that crest today, expected to be the second-highest crest we've seen in the cedar rivers area. that's dramatic stuff. here's the forecast map where we're seeing major flooding.

the area in red, the northeast corner of iowa. the river itself will be at 23 feet today. then it will be dropping wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday. the record crest was at 31 feet. that's not even close to that. but still this will be the second highest ever recorded. so that's historic flooding the last couple of years. the rainy morning, it's along i-95, exiting d.c. baltimore, you're done. philadelphia, you're just about done. new york city, a couple of showers and that's it for you. then this will be racing through boston and providence as we go through the beginning of the morning rush hour. this is how it will look at 7:00 a.m. this morning. the heaviest rains boston and providence to atlantic city, down toward the richmond area. then we'll clear out through the afternoon hours. the front's going to stall to the south. wee be watching some rain charlotte, raleigh, scattered showers and also thunderstorms. so again, early morning rain, clearing out in most areas this afternoon. we also have that disturbance in the tropics that could easily become a depression or matthew

later on today. there's a lot of questions who's at risk for that storm. i'll explain more coming up. >> we'll check back on that later, thanks bill. miami marlins second base man dee gordon hits a historic home run and pays a tearful tribute to jose fernandez in the project. along with a milestone for the cubs a century in the making when we continue. (announcer vo) when you have type 2 diabetes

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number 16 degordon will lead off. number 16 at third base, martin prado, hitting third. number 16 will be in center field, christian yelich, batting in the fourth spot. number 16 in right field, john carlos stanton. number 16, justin boor, at first. number 16 catching. and number 16, danny echevarria, playing at shortstop. number 16, adam conley, pitching. >> to all of us, we shall keep him -- >> that was the scene in miami before the marlins hosted the mets last night, each member of the marlins wearing 16, jose fernandez's jersey, to honor their late teammate. eight miami players surrounded the pitcher's mound during the pregame ceremony, the ninth man missing representing fernandez, who was slated to start last night. before returning to the dugout teammates join them at the mound

to pay their respects, touching the painted number 16 and scribbling in the clay. dee gordon continued the tribute with his first at-bat. >> gordon looks like he's going to take this first pitch from the right-hand batter's box. my guess is as salute to jose fernandez. i would guess that's jose's helmet. gordon to right. it's deep. and it's gone! dee gordon has hit it out and the marlins have a 1-0 lead. >> after taking the first pitch wearing fernandez's batting helmet in a right-handed stance, gordon sends the next one out of the park. his first home run of the season. he hugged his teammates as he made his way back to the dugout. it was such a raw night. the marlins beat the mets 7-3. after the final out the team returned to the pitcher's mound where they laid their hats as chants of "jose" broke out

throughout the stadium. ♪ jose jose jose >> just an unbelievably powerful night in baseball. elsewhere in the majors, the cleveland indians wrap up the a.l. central with a 5-4 road win over the tigers yesterday. it's cleveland's first division crown since 2007. and it will be their first trip back to the playoffs since 2013. we know chris jansing is definitely smiling somewhere this morning. let's go to pittsburgh. the cubs have clinched the n.l. central as well as home field advantage throughout the n.l. playoffs. after last night's 12-2 victory over the pirates chicago tallies its 100th win of the season, a career high six rbis. the game from javier baez helps the cubs reach triple digits in wins for the first time since 1935, congratulations to them. toronto, tempers flare as blue jays and yankees trade bean

balls after the jays' josh donaldson takes his base in the first after being grazed by a pitch. toronto starter j.a. happ plunks headley in the second. both benches clear, exchange words on the field. teams are issued warnings before yankee manager girardi is ejected. new york still out for revenge, luis invest reasonny nailing justin smoak in the leg sending both benches onto the field once more. this time things get physical as players exchange shoves and at least one punch is thrown and all four members of the yankees are ejected. girardi, severino, pitching coach rothschild, rob johnson. no blue jays were tossed. the yankees win it though 7-5. let's turn attention now to monday night football where the saints hosted the falcons in new orleans. teams join hands in a show of unity after the national anthem played last night.

to the game, running backs kevin coleman and freeman carrying atlanta against the seats are coleman rushed for three scores, freeman led with 152 rushing yards and a touchdown reception as falcons scored on five straight possessions. new orleans quarterback drew brees put up big numbers, 376 yards and three touchdowns, through an air interception return. 90 yards there, touchdown early in the fourth quarter, put the game out of reach for the saints. final score falcons win it 45-32. >> all right, i'm glad we got a little bit of football, because who was watching? much more from last night's first presidential debate including arguments over trade and all these years later, president obama's birthplace. the president breaks one of his own big rules at the white house yesterday. we'll explain when we come right back.

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for 30 years you've been doing and it now you're just starting to think of solutions -- >> well, actually -- >> excuse me. i will bring back jobs. you can't bring back jobs. >> well, actually, i have thought about this quite a bit. >> yeah, for 30 years. >> and i have -- well, not quite that long. i hava feeling by the end of this evening i'm going to be blamed for everything that's ever happened. >> why not? >> why not, yeah, why not. you know, just join the debate by saying more crazy things. now let me -- >> there's nothing crazy about

not letting our companies bring their money back into their country -- >> this is secretary clinton's two minutes, please. >> yeah, let's start the clock again, lester. >> that is a big story today. good morning. it's tuesday, september 27th. i'm alex witt alongside louis burgdorf. donald trump and hillary clinton met on stage for the first time last night. in the heated and at times personal debate where the candidates' views on trade, policing, and foreign affairs came head to head. leading up to the debate there was a lot of talk about whether donald trump would be fact checked in realtime and who should do it. here's what happened last night when republican nominee once again claimed that he was against the 2003 invasion of iraq. >> well, i hope the fact checkers are turned -- turning up the volume and really working hard. donald supported the invasion of iraq -- >> wrong. >> that is absolutely proved -- >> wrong. >> over and over again. >> mr. trump, a lot of these are judgment questions. you have supported the war in iraq before the invasion.

what makes your -- >> i did not support the war in iraq. that is a mainstream media nonsense put out by her. because she frankly i think the best person in her campaign is mainstream media. >> my question is -- >> would you like to hear, i was against the war -- wait a minute. i was against the war in iraq. just so you put it out. >> the record shows otherwise -- >> the record does not show -- the record shows that i'm right. when i did an interview with howard stern, very lightly, first time anyone's asked me that, i said, very lightly, i don't know, maybe, who knows. essentially. >> trump's actual response to howard stern back in 2002 was, "yeah, i guess so, i wish the first time it was done correctly." >> in one of the more policy-driven exchanges donald trump called for the renegotiation of trade deals and proactive measures to stop jobs from leaving the country. he invoked the north american free trade agreement passed during bill clinton's administration and put clinton on the defensive over president

obama's landmark trade deal. >> now you want to approve transpacific partnership. you were totally in favor of it. then you heard what i was saying, how bad it is, and you said, i can't win that debate. you know if you did win, you would approve that, and that will be almost as bad as nafta. nothing will ever top nafta. >> well, that is just not accurate. i was against it once it was finally negotiated. and the terms were laid out. i wrote about that in -- >> you called it the gold standard. >> well, i hope -- >> you called it the gold standard of trade deals. you said it's the finest deal you've ever seen. >> no -- >> then you heard what i said about it, all of a sudden you were against it. >> i know you live in your own reality but that is not the facts. the facts are i did say i hoped it would be a good deal, but when it was negotiated -- >> not. which i was not responsible for, i colon concluded it wasn't. >> so is it president obama's fault? >> i wrote about that before you even announced. >> was it president obama's

fault? secretary, was it president obama's fault? because he's pushing it. >> there are different views about what's good for our country, our economy, our leadership in the world. >> donald trump defended his long-running questioning over president obama's birthplace during last night's debate. trump praised himself for pushing the president to release his birth certificate and doubled down while speaking to msnbc's hallie jackson after the debate. >> the birth certificate was produced in 2011. you continued to tell the story and question the president's legitimacy in 2012, '13,' 14, '15. >> yeah. >> as recently as january. so the question is, what changed your mind? >> well, nobody was pressing it. nobody was caring much about it. i figured you'd ask the question tonight, of course. but nobody was caring much about it. but i was the one that got him to produce the birth certificate. and i think i did a good job. i think i did a great job and a great service, not only for the country, but even for the president, in getting him to produce his birth certificate. >> secretary clinton?

>> well, just listen to what you heard. [ laughter ] and clearly, as donald just admitted, he knew he was going to stand on this debate stage and lester holt was going to be asking us questions, so he tried to put the whole racist, birther lie to bed. but it can't be dismissed that easily. he has really started his political activity based on this racist lie that our first black president was not an american citizen. there was absolutely no evidence for it, but he persisted. he persisted year after year. because some of his supporters, people that he was trying to bring into his fold, apparently believed it or wanted to believe it. >> i was very proud of the fact that i was able to get him to put up his birth certificate. and hillary clinton failed. because she can't bring it home.

she just can't bring it home. and she'll fail with jobs and she'll fail all the way along the line. and i think we proved that tonight. she failed with getting him to do it, i got him to do it. so i'm very proud of it. >> donald trump referred to president obama as "your president" last night, a moment that did not go unnoticed on social media with some alleging it shows he still won't put the birther controversy to rest. trump made that reference when saying, nuclear weapons are the greatest threat to the world today. >> the single greatest problem the world has is nuclear armament, nuclear weapons. not global warming, like you think and your president thinks. >> trump later addressed his choice of words after the debate. >> well, he's everybody's president. he's the president so he's everybody's president. >> in the final minutes of last night's debate, donald trump suggested that he held back on an attack against hillary clinton, a personal one.

>> i was going to say something extremely rough to hillary, to her family, and i said to myself, i can't do it. i just can't do it. it's inappropriate. it's not nice. >> after the debate, trump explained what he only hinted at as surrogates praised him for his restraint. >> i didn't want to doy final attack, which was to attack her husband on what took place with respect to him and his life and all of the things that took place because chelsea, who i happen to think is a wonderful young lady, was in the room and i just didn't think it would be appropriate. despite the fact that she's spent, how much has she penitentiary on commercials, over $200 million? >> i think he showed discipline. i think he was measured. i think he was restrained. which i think is good. i think it's good to show the american people that he's ready to be president and he can be measured and it was an important thing for him.

>> he showed tremendous restraint tonight. restraint is a virt due and it's a presidential virtue. it's an obvious point this country knows her husband's record on women. i really respect the fact that he did not do that. this is not about getting knockout punches. this is about showing people you're a leader for the country. >> also in the spin room, trump surrogate and former new york city mayor rudy giuliani told the "new york times," "he restrained himself from saying what i know he would have liked to have said except for the fact that chelsea clinton was in the audience, and that is that she enabled and supported a president who is a disgrace to the white house, he was one of the two presidents impeached, he was impeached because he took advantage of an intern, an intern that she attacked for six months and she claims to be a feminist." well, hillary clinton went after donald trump last night over their starkly different positions position s on climate change. clinton noted trump believes it to be a hoax, over trump's multiple objections. >> take clean energy. some country is going to be the clean energy super power of the

21st century. donald thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the chinese. i think it's real -- >> i did not -- >> the science is real -- >> i do not say that. >> i think it's important that we grip this and deal with it, both at home and abroad. >> despite trump's multiple protests, social media was quick to point to his 2012 tweet which reads, the concept of global warming was created by and for the chinese in order to make u.s. manufacturing noncompetitive. that tweet, according to twitter, was the most retweeted tweet of the entire debate. it is worth noting that according to politifact, trump indicated that tweet was a joke in an interview this year. however they also note trump has repeatedly called climate change a hoax in speeches, tweets and media appearances and rate trump's claim he called climate change a hoax amostly false. >> "washington post" says there is new evidence linking donald trump's charity to his business empire. according to the report the

trump foundation received over $2 million over recent years, a claim that the money was owed to donald trump himself or to his businesses but the payments were directed to his charity instead. while tax experts say the arrangement is generally allowed, trump would likely still be responsible for paying income tax. the trump campaign says the billionaire paid the required tax on one of the donations but the record is unclear on the others as trump has refused to release his personal tax returns. it's also unclear whether trump personally asked for the fountain to go into his foundation rather than into his businesses. he stopped donating to his make same cause in 2008. a senior trump adviser says the washington post report is "worthless conjecture" and trump had followed all rules and regulations. still ahead, much more on last night's historic debate. the markets are reacting and whether investors have declared a winner. we'll be right back.

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is this who i think this is? >> yeah, that is who you think it is. he just popped in, john popper. that's how much i love this country, i'm willing to cheat. >> pretty cool. vice presidential nominee tim kaine facing off with jimmy kimmel last night, who spent most of this season running his own campaign of sorts. last night's debate is giving global markets a boost. live from london, lisa, what about this debate is helping stocks climb this morning? >> well, in europe where we initially started out on higher ground, we've since taken some of those gains off and are looking at a slight handful of sectors trading in positive territory. the food and beverages sector, household goods, banks having recovered a little bit earlier on. stateside we're looking at a little bit of a boost to come according to the u.s. futures when your markets open this

afternoon our time, this morning your time. we could be looking at a green start on the back of this debate. many people saying clinton being the winner of the debate if you look at market moves. david bloom from hsbc quoted "don't bother looking at facebook and twitter if you want to see who won the debate, look at the mexican peso against the dollar, we saw a huge rally during the debate coming off lows beforehand. the reason for this is because of what trump wants to do to trade. it's thought if trump gets voted in there will be more trade protectionism. if he doesn't we'll see less of that. wanting to repeal nafta, wanting to repeal tariffs on mexican goods exported to the rust. that's one of the reasons why we saw this big members began pels sew trade. twitter is heating up. a whole bunch of names out there making the rounds on who could possibly be interested in buying twitter. sales force, alphabet, microsoft, now disney.

this piece, how would twitter get content from content providers that are rivally disn disney? back to you. >> thank you so much for that. let's check weather with meteorologist bill karins. >> i've got the video. >> flooding video, san antonio resc rescue, a tropical depression. >> it should be a hurricane. let's get to the picture out of san antonio yesterday. yeah, look at this rescue, you could barely see the car. that's the top of the vehicle there that is almost completely submerged. that rescue ladder got there just in time to get that gentleman out. look at the vest on him too. this morning we're not seeing anything flooding. there is rain for you this morning. it's umbrella weather for you and the kids. boston to providence. hartford, you're good now. new york city, one more half hour of showers, then you're good. philly, baltimore, d.c., you look fine. by 6:00 p.m., all that rain is cleared out of the northeast. scattered storms in the carolinas. unfortunately there's another storm coming. we do need the rain in the

mid-atlantic and you're going to get it. we're setting up for a heavy rain event wednesday night and all day thursday here from areas of northern virginia through much of montaaryland and centra virginia. looks like much of new england misses this heavy rain. that's where the drought's the worst. we'll watch that. we could see as much as 4 to 5 inches of rain from d.c. northward into southern pennsylvania. also i mentioned what's going to happen with the dropibles. hurricane hunters are going to fly out this afternoon. this will likely be a tropical depression. this should be matthew in the days ahead to heading for the caribbean. we don't know where it's heading, it's seven days away probably from eventual landfall. we're not out of the wood in the u.s. either. one more story before break, president obama concluded his eighth and final tribal nations conference at the white house yesterday citing progress and improving conditions for native americans. as part of the closing ceremony the president was wrapped in a ceremonial blanket and hat. donning of the hat broke an

unofficial rule that the president spelled out back in 2013 when presented with a football helmet by the u.s. naval academy. >> here's a general rule, you don't put stuff on your head if you're president. so -- yeah, that's politics 101. you never look good wearing something on your head. >> the president was probably thinking back to then-presidential candidate mike due contact does, who was mocked relentlessly for this 1988 moment aboard a tank. opponents to john kerry tried a similar tactic after he was photographed wearing a baby blue bunny suit while visiting nasa. senator ted cruz was hesitant to get into head gear, refusing his daughter's attempt to make him an honorary cheesehead on the campaign trail in wisconsin. donald trump has no such qualms, prou weadlyng a miner's helmet in west virginia, modeling his ubiquitous make america great again cap at virtually every campaign stop. even president obama is willing

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i think when he calls me brilliant i'll take the compliment. >> i have been obsessed with his putin love. blows up the whole central tenet of his candidacy, which is make america great again, by picking putin over america? it doesn't add up. >> okay, you're the republican on this panel, just want to remind you of that. welcome back. it took more than five decades of war and four years of heated negotiations but there is finally a peace deal between

colombia's government and the revolutionary armed forces of colombia. colombian president juan manuel fan toes and the rebel leader signed a 297-page agreement in front of a massive crowd that included u.n. general secretary ban ki-moon and secretary of state john kerry. fighting between the two sides has killed over 220,000 people and drove 8 million from their homes. the deal must be ratified but it's expected to pass. opposite side of the world, the level of destruction in syria is reaching new horrific heights in that country's long-running civil war. new reporting says the bombs are falling faster than ever before in the embattled region of aleppo. residents caught in the crossfire describe the syrian and russian air strikes as the worst ever in five years of warfare. food and medical supplies are virtually nonexistent in the rebel-held region. hundreds have been killed in several straight days of aerial

attacks following the breakdown of a recent cease-fire in that country. joining us from london, kelly cobier, this situation seems to get worse literally by the day. >> it really does. despite that, syria's foreign minister is saying an internationally brokered truce is still possible. this after one of the worst assaults on aleppo in years. even this morning there are fierce clashes reported southwest of aleppo between government troops and the opposition. while people in rebel-held eastern aleppo are digging for survivors today. a new kind of destruction there. bunker-busting bombs according to activists and international aid groups. the kind of explosives that take out underground hospitals and shelters, places of last refuge for 250,000 civilians there. we're starting to see these images now of the aftermath from that intense bombardment early monday morning. ny of them are children.s.

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welcome back. before we toss it to "morning joe," a check of the stories you'll hear about the day ahead. al sharpton will lead a march in tulsa, oklahoma, for 40-year-old terrence crumper who was shot and killed by a police officer two weeks ago. officer betty shelby has been charged with manslaughter. the senate homeland security committee holds a hearing. back to the campaign trail for hillary clinton and donald trump. clinton stumps in raleigh, north carolina. donald trump campaigns in

battleground florida. his running mate mike pence holds a rally in wisconsin. clinton's running mate tim kaine campaigns in orlando. >> that's a wrap for us on this tuesday. i'm alex witt alongside i know you live in your own reality, but that's not the facts. >> i think my strongest as set maybe by far is my temperament, my winning temperament, i know how to win. >> i think donald just criticized me for preparing for this debate. and yes, i did. and you know what else i prepared for? i prepared to be president, and i think that's a good thing. >> that was the moment right there. tuesday, september 27th. welcome to